AI Monthly Digest #18 - the pixelated first step toward megastructures - deepsense.ai

As we predicted in our AI Trends 2020, NLP is the year's leading trend. But research on self-regenerating structures has likewise been both surprising and fascinating. February was rich in news on self-regenerating machines and NLP-related events and research. The tech behemoths are racing to build larger and more efficient language models, which are both costly and technologically challenging, if not daunting. Microsoft is a relatively new player in the game, and follows in the footsteps of Google with itsBERT model and OpenAI, which brought outGPT-2.